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The endgame is the destruction of Melvin Capital, and that's going to happen no matter what. No one can swoop in and just tank the stock price. Even if BlackRock were to dump all their shares before Friday, it likely still wouldn't be enough because that's only 13% of GME. Michael Burry's Scion Capital owns around 5%, but I don't think Dr. Burry's going anywhere either, and the reason they're going to hold is the same reason Melvin is going to go down in flames, there's simply no stock left to buy and no indication that selling makes sense right now.

The whole thing driving this is a massive buy-up of all available stock. No one wants to sell; everyone wants to buy.

If Melvin Capital were a patient in a hospital, it'd be brain dead and on life support. We're just waiting for everyone involved to say their goodbyes so the plug can be pulled.

At $90 a share, Melvin had to get a $2.75bn capital injection to stay afloat. That was the time to get out. They instead tried to force a sell-off so they could buy up cheap shares and reduce the bleeding. That failed. For roughly every $12 over $90, Melvin Capital lost $1 billion. Well at $348 a share, they're now negative $21.5bn in value. Its over. Their greed has resulted in their utter destruction.

Once Melvin's corpse is wheeled out of the hospital, BlackRock and Burry might head for the exit, especially Burry, since he bought in at $4 a share, and a 5% stake there is such an enormous return even at $200, much less $348, that at some point, you're just being a greedy asshole.

Some people on WSB a little more ruthless, and frankly with the BS that Wall Street has gotten away with for the past few decades, I can't say I blame them; they plan to hold till $1000, which hilarious and crazy as it sounds, may not be impossible, but I'd judge it unlikely.

I'd say anyone that got in $GME before the huge price spike ($20 and lower), now's a good time to cash out. You won. Your lottery ticket hit all 6 numbers. Go live your life.

To all the short-sellers, I can only bow and say, "We who are about to die, salute you."
I think "bottom" was just as intentional.
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Let’s just say that Reddit is unequal in their application of rules.
"I highly doubt you're going to find some Joe Nobody -- you're going to find some very well financed, planned player."

Such as? It's been a week and thousands of reporters and traders can't identify a whale moving billions? Or are you just making this up?
that makes sense, what messaging applications do you prefer to use instead? (video or chat)
I think it's disingenuous to compare those two numbers. The mass majority of that trading is alogos trading within short time spans, not entities entering or exiting long positions. This includes all the market makers that have to hedge options under the insane stock volatility by exiting and enter both short and long positions as the stock moves. It further includes every flavor of HFT that can potentially syphon some value from high volatility combined with momentum.

This volume doesn't tell us anything about the actual change in stock held by various entities nor how easily 70MM shares could be obtained from entities.
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> Until then interacting with a 'WebTransport Media API' involves...

Until then just use webrtc for client/server video. P2p protocols work just fine in centralised contexts.
Based on videos showing off KITT replicas, that steering wheel doesn't really work.
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Saw this submission yesterday that got no attention which claims seed oils (specifically Omega-6 fats) are the primary cause of diabetes (and other diseases):

https://youtu.be/7kGnfXXIKZM

Don’t know much about this though. Anybody think there’s something to it?
Reddit "wins" by buying enough to take GameStop private so they can exit in an orderly fashion 100% screwing the shorters and not letting Citadel front run the exist.

I think the GameStop CEO can offer up a class "R" share that retail investors will be happy with.
T1 is "moral diabetes". I'm not sure there is a trend to be seen unless it has to do with the environment surrounding the pregnancy.
Anger/vengence seems like a primary motivator. Let me put it this way: how much money do you think these folks would pay to see a hedge fund manager crap his pants?
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That's funny. That was the first thing I looked for as well! It's on the second page.
Then you don't understand this, or any of the things you listed. George Soros noticed a mismatch of fundamental value. He pushed the price towards its fundamental value. These traders are pushing the price away from fundamental value, and they are doing so at the expense of other, later retail traders.
This thread/discussion is attached to an article about Discord banning one (of multiple, only one got banned) communities and the r/wallstreebtets community going private (moderators limiting access to members who've already joined and blocking outsiders). Since then, the subreddit was opened back up. How did Reddit close it down if it everyone can still access it?
I was quoting the number for a modern 3 tesla MRI machines, which would fall into the 500k+ range on your link. These are high end but not necessarily rare. For example, UCSF has 4 of these machines. These can easily be on the order of 3 million+ with installation

https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/lab-in-emerging-biomedical-...

Here is a link for a 7 million suite to house one of the machines
https://www.dignityhealth.org/sacramento/about-us/press-cent...

While costs for these machines are going down, even more expensive 7 and 10 Tesla machines are starting to be installed, going up to $14 million

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07182-7
"Or are you just making this up?"

What a funny retort. Wait, are you just making up the notion that we can "identify" whales moving billions? Do we check the central trade registry and cross reference with billionaires?

Do you know how any of this works? Or are you just making this up?

Unless you're the SEC, this isn't possible. Reporters can't do that, so if you're taking the absence of that evidence as evidence, you are simply ignorant.
Big lols on this,
~They think it's "icky" to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website.

Does anyone remember Google Web Toolkit when Java came to the front end.

History repeats. Again and again.
The mods said that there were bots spamming actual hate speech and they couldn't remove it fast enough.
I really do hope that you're right and I'm wrong about this.
The details: a hedge fund decided to short retail stocks during the pandemic. They overextended with a naked short position against GameStop (that brick and mortar video game retailer) that exceeds not only the share float by a large margin but even the total number of shares in existence.

u/DeepFuckingValue on r/wallstreetbets discovered this a month or so ago, took out a $50k position, and let the rest of the sub in on it. That position is now worth $50M, a 1,000x increase.

Now there is literally no limit to the upside of a short squeeze. The price goes up high enough and the short sellers declare bankruptcy and liquidate their positions to cover the cost of purchasing shares. If they still come up short, then the same happens to the banks that lend to them . If that comes short, the brokerage must step up. At that point there’d probably be government intervention and a bailout. The WSB motto has become “we can stay retarded longer than they can stay solvent.”

According to a naïve view of the law, at least, that is correct. Far more likely there will be market outages and regulator shenanigans at undo the situation. Nobody is more of a sore loser than the establishment.
DFV was buying GME since 2019 june though and he was making text based case long before June 2020.
> Until/unless we've all moved to IPv6 without any NAT

hell will freeze before that happens.

This is the bread and butter of ISP. Without NAT they lose too many revenue sources.

They will hold to their NATs forever, claiming something like user security. While pushing for IPv6 to reduce their operating costs (those IPv4 costs add up)
Does anyone actually prefer the experience of an integrated Smart TV compared to a separate device? If these users exist, they probably wouldn't be found around these parts.

I do find it interesting because conversely in a car I absolutely do prefer an OEM integrated infotainment system as opposed to after market. Granted my experience with after market head units is kinda old, but I recall them seeming fairly antiquated with an OEM unit from the same vintage. Their real appeal was to "modernize" a legacy vehicle.
> Venmo/cashapp/paypal...

ugh, yeah sure. Via magical thinking maybe.
Not to mention you have to pay bank to have an account in the first place.

You are shifting goalpost of this discussion every post, its pointless to keep on pointing out holes in you 'arguments'.

Btc has a utility therefore your original argument is invalid.
Yeah not sure why people hate the firms who just practically donated $5 billion to them (assuming they don't buy on the top).

It's a game and some one are going to lose.
But what happens when they all need to cover? regardless of who lent to who, all the parties who borrowed are looking to now buy the same 90 shares? I don't know the answer and am asking.

I also wonder what happens when a cycle happens?
Sub goes private all the time. It is nothing new.
in the ground the temperature doesn't swing that much, and Yakutia is permafrost zone. It is just a juxtaposition of the forest in the snow which usually means no fire and the fire under that forest that looks strange at the first look.
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The paper, Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces [1]:

> Increased stiffness ratio and higher Reynolds number yield shapes that are more square. The corners arise from faster contraction in the stiff regions and relatively slower movement in the center of the soft regions.

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/sm/d0sm0...
Wait until someone figures out how to automate this for small small small investors. Distribute across millions of Redditors
There are also stop limits, vs stops which just sell at market. there’s also OCOs and OSOs that can make things interesting.
Doesn't look like it's loading at all for me ... hug of death?
> Who is this hurting, exactly?

I think the narrative around this trade is a bit simplistic, and a lot of people in it are likely to wind up disappointed by the details it ignores.

For instance, with potential losses this big, counter-party risk is huge. Even if everything works as the trade intends, and the losers have to chase after an ever smaller pool of increasingly expensive GME shares, it may make more economic sense for some of those losers to declare bankruptcy instead.
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There is no burden of proof on anyone. The person was simply explaining a concept, known as a short squeeze.

A short squeeze is a well known financial concept. It is not a claim. It is a concept.
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GME trading after-hours 90% higher than yesterday's close.
This is precisely what works, unfortunately. Each time you deplatform a group, only a certain percentage of the most dedicated users follow to the next iteration.
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Or they're a starting point. You could respond with agreement or disagreement and an argument.
Friday has nothing to do with the shorts (not the short squeeze). Friday is about the gamma squeeze because options expire on Fridays
PDFs are fine but their time will come to an end for one big reason: they were invented to reproduce defined-size paper forms.
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What type of firefights have you had to deal with? How often do they occur? What did you do to make sure your last firefight never happens again?
I agree, and I tried not to be too narrow in my reasoning, but it's primarily speaking from what myself and so many that I know have experienced.

I initially didn't want to use it, and I know many others that didn't. Slowly the communities they loved moved to it until they were completely excluded and felt forced to adopt it as well. At this point I only have two friends left that still refuse to use it, everyone else gave in citing network effects. It reminds me precisely of how Facebook felt when I was in school, in that you were excluded from friend groups and events if you chose not to use it.

I know there are many alternatives, but getting your favorite communities to switch to them is completely intractable. Communication shouldn't be like this and I think that we can do much better, even if it takes us awhile to get there.
There's really not any other way to get to shorted at 150% of the float, which was the GME reality. So... yes, likely illegal things happened by the hedge funds. Will the SEC investigate or fine them for it? Probably not, they'll probably get a(nother) bailout instead.
What's old is new again! Who can name all the previous incarnations of this idea?
Reddit servers were really unstable for a bit, I've noticed user pages don't load when that happens. Seems a lot of people see conspiracies in caching issues.
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Nobody does anything for awhile is the most likely result. But there's also a side effect of generating angst and resentment towards the establishment that'll get bottled up and pressurized waiting for the right opportunity to explosively release. An investment in radicalization so to speak. I think Trump is an example of that phenomenon.
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I'd hope you'd be being interviewed by those staff.
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He got started trading his MD earnings and posting a blog about it.
didn’t Melvin already cover?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/gamestop-short-sel...
Is there any data to support this? I was talking to my therapist about it recently and she suggested the opposite. There’s a huge glut of therapists, they just only want to have clients who pay out of pocket because then they offload the work of any insurance reimbursement, paperwork or other overhead to the client. She also suggested therapists want good filters to avoid difficult clients, like low-income clients that have a hard time paying and have more difficult social or behavioral issues.

As I understood it, she was saying basically this:

1. therapists typically just want to work freelance, make their own hours, and don’t mind having very few clients / taking extended breaks from working many hours.

2. therapists don’t want to deal with “challenging” clients (who generally are the most in need of therapy in the first place). “Ability to pay out of pocket” is a good filter to implicitly reject “undesirable” clients.

3. therapists want to externalize the labor burden of coordinating with insurance onto the patient

4. None of this has any connection to charging higher prices - that’s a separate supply & demand phenomenon based on the talent of the therapist, population & demographics of the area, and specializations that deal with issues more correlated with wealthy clients.

My impression from all this has been a massive negative opinion of “working class” therapists and counselors, to the point where I believe they should be required to accept insurance and they should be required to manage the paperwork process of insurance claims as a regulated condition of practicing therapy - it’s a matter of public health that’s in all our collective best interest to enforce with regulation.
I don’t think that’s accurate anymore. Bitcoin ten years ago was like the www in 1995. Now we have DeFi which runs on crypto. DeFi is to banks what e-commerce was to retail stores in 2000.
Really? The stock did +135% on a single day and you complain about after hours noise
Bot traders for bitcoin/crypto already exist for purchase.
I've seen Discord ban any number of subcultures (and then play whack-a-mole with the survivors) based on a lot of hand-waving about "harm" and such.

Sometimes I really miss IRC, but people keep abandoning it for Discord.
It happens. I think I'd rather my site be served with ads, than not at all.

It would be great if we could always automatically choose the right option, but browsers don't do that.
What if the two-thirds of voters wanted to make a law saying chargers had to interoperate? (using a standard plug)

Tesla could still differentiate themselves through better service and infrastructure (I saw other posts describing how bad Leaf charging stations were). But they wouldn't be able to hassle consumers with lock-in.

When did locking in consumers become a fair way to recoup investment?
It's not that there is an expiration date, but instead that there is a collateral requirement for holding short positions in addition to the interest. As the shorted stock increases in value, the borrower must post additional collateral or close out their position. If the collateral requirements exceed the fund's capital then they'll be forced to close.

Further, all hedge funds have internal risk limits, which include limits of their exposure to a single equity. Should the collateral requirements exceed this limit, then their internal risk compliance team will ensure that the short position be at least partially closed to keep them within their limits.
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That's right... I actually thought I had typed "Dr.". Strange! I'll make the correction.
You'd think that, but even simple algorithms exhibit complex emergent behavior when exposed to the real world.

How A Book About Flies Came To Be Priced $24 Million On Amazon: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/amazon-flies-24-million/
I don't really know how to read your comment. All the wireless protocol that we use are actually "raw" radio whatever that means. You can use them to do P2P communication if you want to as demonstrated by this protocol.

The way you physically transport data can be safely decoupled from how you will encode and how you want your protocol to work. It makes thinking about the different layers easier and allow them to evolve independantly. Nothing prevents you from building an IP network using ham radio as a transport. The OSI model wasn't developed as a purely theorical concept. It does solve a practical problem.
It would be great if browsers implemented other common elements such as sortable data tables, carousels, etc.

https://open-ui.org/
Yeah I'm not sure I've ever felt as old as I feel today. I just don't get it.
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Okay, I’ll take the bait. As someone with direct experience with the topic at hand, who has worked with / remains friends with people with direct experience regarding the subject of this conversation, I can say that many of the assertions of the parent ring true to me.

And, in fact, the stuff you don’t know is even worse.
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Except when it's already too shorted and there's nothing left to short
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There is a reason why commercial companies spend a lot of money on ads. They work. A lot more than people want to believe. Ads tell you how to be a man, how to be successful and admired by your peers, how to be attractive to potential partners, how to secure your future etc. Repeat it enough times and you will start to believe it. You probably believe that you need to eat meat for protein right? And that you should drink milk for calcium right? All BS successfully programmed into you through ads.
I bought TSLA around about the same time she must have, with no insider knowledge.

Honestly I think we need some new rules about securities and elected officials, but the obvious ones would not cover a sitting president patronizing his own failing businesses in order to increase revenues using taxpayer money.

We want rules against people buying stock or taking bribes from oil companies, but nothing about using your own company to 'provide services' to federal officials. But even if you transfer control of your holdings to a third party, you still know what was in there when you started. And if 'what was in there' was your nephew's business...
It's a good point worth making: that Discord only exists and is as usable and popular as it is because it has a profit model and significant funding, and that's definitely a large component of why FOSS has lost users to them.

Still, as long as things like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive and Signal and perhaps even Firefox exist, I'll believe we can do better.
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Who is the Cinderella in the GameStop fairy tale?